Academic Vocab
A character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
Foil
How did Frankenstein feel when his experiment succeeded and the creature came to life?
Who does Robert Walton write his letters to in the novel?
Who teaches the monster how to speak?
The De Lacey family
Who was Justine?
Servant who confesses to killing William Frankenstein even though she is innocent of the crime.
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Allusion
Who does Victor want to marry in the novel.
Elizabeth
Where is Robert Walton headed at the beginning of the novel?
The North Pole
What text is the monster obsessed with in the novel that he alludes to over and over.
Paradise Lost
What piece of evidence was found on Justine that incriminated her in the crime.
A photo
Any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative aspects such as theme or mood.
Why was Victor's best friend Henry Clerval killed?
Victor refused to continue making a female monster for his monster.
Why does Walton want to travel to the North Pole?
His sense of adventure and discovering new places that haven't been explored.
What does the monster ask Victor to create for him?
A female moster
Correct this citation and write it in MLA format.
(Mary Shelley, Volume 3, Chapter 2, pg. 121).
(Shelley 121).
A literary movement that lasted from late 18th century to mid-19th century, characterized by reliance on imagination, freedom of thought and expression, and idealization of nature.
Romanticism
What does Victory study in college?
Natural science
What is Robert Walton considered a "Romantic hero"?
He considers himself a social outcast. He is a wanderer who journeys to escape the pressures of the world.
Name the first family member of Victor who is killed by the monster.
William Frankenstein
What are the three types of appeals that we discussed in class?
Emotional
Ethical
Logical
A genre of fiction characterized by gloom and darkness, often with a grotesque or supernatural plot unfolding in an eerie or lonely location such as a ruined castle.
Gothicism
What is Victor's father's name?
Alphonse
Where does Robert Walton begin his journey?
Where does the monster insist he and the female monster will go once she is created?
Jungles of South America
Why is Frankenstein considered a frame story?
It's a story within a story within a story. All told from a first person point of view of Robert who tells his story then tells Victor's story as if Victor was telling the story and then the monster's story.